Epic of Sundiata

May 5th, 2015

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In the Epic of Sundiata (also spelled Son-Jara or Sundjata): Naré Maghann Konaté (also called Maghan Kon Fatta or Maghan the Handsome) was a Mandinka king who one day received a divine hunter at his court. The hunter predicted that if Konaté married an ugly woman, she would give him a son who would one day be a mighty king.

Epic of SundiataIn theEpic of Sundiata(also spelled Son-Jara or Sundjata): Nar Maghann Konat(also called Maghan Kon Fatta or Maghan the Handsome) was a Mandinka king who one day received a divine hunter at his court. The hunter predicted that if Konat married an ugly woman, she would give him a son who would one day be a mighty king. Nar Maghann Konat was already married to Sassouma Beret and had a son by her, Dankaran Toumani Keta. However, when two Traor hunters from the Do kingdom presented him an ugly, hunchbacked woman named Sogolon, he remembered the prophecy and married her. She soon gave birth to a son, Sundiata Keita, who was unable to walk throughout his childhood. Despite his physical weakness, the king still granted Sundiata his owngriotat young age; this was in order to have them grow together and provide constant consultation as was custom.[1]With the death of Nar Maghann Konat (c. 1224), his first son, Dankaran Tuman, assumed the throne despite Konat's wishes that the prophecy be respected. Sundiata and his mother, who now had given birth to two daughters and adopted a second son from Konat's third wife Namandj, suffered the